I’m not a huge fan of movie themed toys. They tend to not look like their real-life counterparts and I think it steers kids in a direction to only know the movie universe and not the material it comes from.
That was my old-man-kids-today speech.
My inner 8 year old is freaking out about this commercial though. It is so well done. I love it.
For my birthday my friend Jenn got me a Transformers: Prime Bumblebee. I of course was foolish and went out and bought him two days before. Jenn smartly got a gift receipt, so I went back to the store and picked up this badass Soundwave. He is crazy hard to find so I was very lucky to get him when I did. Now I have all the Decepticons that are in prime save the guys that aren’t out in toy form yet.
As you can see, Megatron is awesome. However, the reason you do not see Wheeljack is because one of his joints is screwed up. During his transformation, his legs turn inwards so they are facing forward. The mechanism that does this only allows a 90 degree turn so they don’t swivel all around. For some weird reason, my Wheeljack’s right leg goes 90 degrees in the wrong direction. So thats a bit of a bummer. There was still one left at the Wal-Mart, so I’ll just go and explain that he’s broken and exchange for the other one.
I haven’t bought Transformers in years, but I’ve been watching the new cartoon Transformers Prime and loving it! More on that series after I finish season one.
I wanted to pick up Soundwave but he is one per case and the kind folk at Wal-Mart said what was on the shelf was all they had.
What I did find was a short packed voyager Megatron and deluxe Wheeljack. They’re pretty badass.
New Minimates today! All Marvel vs Capcom 3 today. I gave Wolverine and Spider-Man to a friend at work as I have a bunch of them. The Super Skrull is my favorite of the group. Chris Redfield has a bunch of cool accessories as well.
With some of my store credit from that poster job, I picked up the Adam Jensen Figure from Deus Ex: Human Revolution. He is crazy posable and he comes with two extra arms (blades out) and two extra hands (fists / open). I’m not sure where he will live at home, but he is pretty cool and looks all broody, similar to in-game.
So Lego is putting out a line that is being marketed (more or less) specifically to girls. At first I was pretty upset. I read the article announcing it and it seems like they have good good intentions and have done some good research.
Lego doesn’t usually disappoint me with their marketing decisions. They’re a smart company that has been around forever. The beauty of Lego sets, is that for the most part they weren’t gender specific. There of course were themes like, Harry Potter, Prince of Persia and Indiana Jones that are more movie driven. I feel those can be excluded.
On the whole though, their sets like City, and Space, and Pirates are great because they’re general ideas, not specifically marketed to boys or girls.
When I was looking at the sets for the second time (with less rage), and after talking to co-workers with little girls, I came to think that girls would actually want to play with these. Some of them are a little lame (doll house) but the science lab seemed pretty cool.
This will be a Lego set to watch and see what comes up from it.
Do you want your cat to have an adorable catnip filled knit cheeseburger toy? Well now you can! My friend Heather Hardie makes these as well as catnip hotdogs, donuts and cupcakes. I have two for Oliver who is my kitty, but now you can have them for your kitty too!
Please reblog as well.
Haven’t changed my minimates in a while.
From top to bottom:
Avengers first appearance
Spider-Friends
Sentinels
Teen Titans
Iron Man Armory
The trial of the Summers.
I’ve decided on my armor setup for my customizable armor Spartan. We’ve got ODST shoulder pads and helmet with a CQC chest piece. I don’t have any ODST guys so thats why I chose the helmet. I might switch for the EVA but I dunno. He looks pretty badass.
